Improved brush



.annusare in Brushes; and I do hereby declare th'tthe followo a central vertical section of my improvement.

` as toperform the double oiice of expanding the hanan improved cement of my own eompound,-of equal D, having a broad head, `was clearly shown. `This for BUirALo', NEWVYQRK.

3 Leners Patent No. shoarma saltwater 21, 1869.

\ IMPRovn-n BRUSH.

` The Schedule referred t`o in these Petters Patent and naking part of the sme.

To all whom 'it may concern.:` l Be it known thatI, CHARLES BOECKH, of the-city of Buialo, county of Erie, and State of NewYork,4

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement `ing is a full and exact description thereof, reference belng'had to the accompanying drawings, making'part of this specification, in whiclrthe figurerepresents My invention consists in combining with the handle f andhcad of a brush a headed metallic plug or cone, drawn in reversely from the' bottom, and so .arranged dle in its socket and holdingr the bristles in place, substantially as hereinafter described. MInthedrawingsfo,

A represents the head of the brush-'13, the bristles; and C, the handle, the `latter simply iitting in a socket formed in theLhead, as shown.

The bristles are inserted andwound or bound in the ordinary manner, but I employ, to retain them in place,

parts of' strong glue, shellac varnish, rosin, and white or red'lead, `Well 'boiledtogethen t o o 1 Reversely, in the insideof the brnsh-head,and into ythe end of the handle, is driven a metallicplug'or cone,

plug or cone, on entering the handle,expands it firmly in its socket, so as to keep it in place, and the head a, in being driven up, enters the bristles, not asexpanding them so asto pack together inv the binding, but

also catching the ends'resting above and clamping them firmly to the brush-head in'a direction at right angles to the expandinglaction. K

Ordinary plugs, entering from the `top and projecting down into the body of the bristles, have been long known, the object being simply to hold the bristles in place by a downward expansive action, the socket or casefor' the ends of the` bristles in that case being generally made also of conical form, to assist the action of the wedge.

Such is not the equivalent of my invention. My plug is entered in a reverse position, and the expanding action of the wedge is simplyl expended upon the handle, to hold it in place, the enlarged head of the plug servingto tighten the bristles, which, when iied' in place, are all united by the cement before described. I do `not claim a wedge passing into the bristles to expand them, `as I .am aware that the same is not new;

` but What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-;

The combination with the brush-beadA, and handle C, of the metallic plug D, enteredreversely from-l the bottoni, thereby expanding the handle in its socket, and provided with a head, a, tbereby securing the bristles in place, the Whole arranged as described, and operating in manner and for the purpose specie'd.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the' presence of two subscribing witnesses.` o y OHAS. BOEOKH. i VitIiesses: w

AUBERT HAIGHT, .0. N. WoonwAnn. 

